History

Century

Abraham-Louis Breguet

History of Watchmaking

Abraham-Louis Breguet was granted a patent for the tourbillon, an ingenious device to eliminate errors of rate due to a watch's vertical position and the effects of gravitation.


World history

Toussaint Louverture took control of Santo Domingo and proclaimed the slaves' freedom.
Assassination of Paul I of Russia.
1803
. Almost the whole of India was now under British rule and administered by the East India Company.
1804
. Napoleon I was crowned Emperor of the French.